Cultists in Congress Passing Bills to Honor 'the Great President Trump'
The list includes renaming economic exclusionary zones, airports, highways and introducing a $500 bill with Trump's face.
America is the promised land. Income inequality does not exist. Things like teen pregnancy and high rates of infant mortality (the highest in the 20-most advanced economies in the world), opioid addiction, and a Republican and SCOTUS-fed gun-violence epidemic are things of the past. Americans are doing well, enviously so, and we have finally lived up to our national potential.
It’s the long-awaited American renaissance.
No, I am not drinking — yet. Nor have I lost my mind. Someone has, though; to be precise, many people have, but we know who they are (most frighteningly, we don’t always know who they are, for with each passing day, we find out that formerly sane, rational citizens now support him).
If the nation were free of the problems I listed above and had acted on the so-called border crisis when given the chance to pass bipartisan legislation back in December, then I would say, “Go crazy, guys.” Make some popcorn, candy some apples, and hire in a funnel cake truck. However, the problems listed above have not been solved. Instead, because of the antics that take place under Republican leadership, the problems fester. Gaseous fumes rise from the muck and poison anyone who dares to inhale heartily.
House Republicans have introduced several pieces of legislation in recent weeks that aim to honor Donald Trump.
The latest bill, from Rep. Greg Steube of Florida, called for the areas of water surrounding the U.S, called the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), to be renamed as the “Donald John Trump Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States.”
If passed, the name change would mandate the waters be referred to by the former president in laws, maps, documents and other records. Steube introduced the legislation on Friday June 14 to coincide with Trump’s 78th birthday.
In the latest signal of the continuing influence and support Trump has within the GOP, several members of Congress have recently taken steps to honor the former president with bills or resolutions. These include attempts to rename an airport or to feature a portrait of the former president on a $500 bill (Multiple Bills to Honor Donald Trump).
Republicans in Congress are using their power to codify the personality cult, to etch it into the nation’s big oak tree so that generations into the future, when the stink of Trump maybe will have drifted off to the infamous past it’s guaranteed, Americans will wrongly assume he must have been someone great the way that so many dopey people in the South believe that Braxton Bragg was great.
It is shocking and sometimes leaves me staring at the wall in my home and muttering, “Is this really happening? Are they really praising the only president who tried to use violence to prevent the peaceful transfer of power? A man who has been found guilty of rape and 34 felonies?” I honestly don’t know where I am or even the year at times like these.
How did we get here? Let me simplify it: 28 years of nonstop watching Fox News and accepting everything they say as truth has brought us to this moment. The Supreme Court’s interference in the 2000 election, when they handed it to Bush, put us on an express train to 9/11 and then to the economic crisis of 2007–8.
Republicans don’t want the government to solve any problems because they know that if things calm down and the people aren’t ever on the edge of their seats preparing to bolt from the movie theater, then Americans will notice how corrupt and against freedom they are. The average right-wing member of Congress is not an intelligent person. Neither do they know U.S. nor world history. Their overall knowledge of things is so pallid that they lack the resources to make comparisons, which permits more effective critical thinking.
All they know are the slogans and soundbites of their party and their orange cult leader. They follow him because they see him as the best chance for their political success. After all, the only reason they are in this whole thing is to seize power and turn our nation into a Christo-fascist one, and if they can make a killing financially while achieving those goals, then why not?
A group of House Republicans, led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, proposed awarding Trump the Congressional Gold Medal in May.
The resolution cited a number of arguments for Trump being awarded the highest civilian award in the U.S. including how “no wars were started” while he was in office.
Previous winners of the Congressional Gold Medal include the late Nelson Mandela and the Apollo 11 astronauts who landed on the moon, and the 14th Dalai Lama (Multiple Bills to Honor Donald Trump).
Can you imagine a world where Donald Trump’s name is uttered in the same sentence as Nelson Mandela, the Apollo 11 astronauts and the Dalai Lama? I can’t, but they can, and this is sick and sad.